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[–] [email protected] 39 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or when you click update and shutdown and the computer just restarts.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

Top 5 annoyance, happens all the time with my work machine so I have to baby sit the update before I can shut down for real and leave.

[–] zorrothefox2001 22 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I wait for bios then hit the power button

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago

It's the computer equivalent of stopping the microwave when it's done but hasn't yet beeped.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 3 months ago

Even worse if you're on a potato.

[–] UnfortunateShort 16 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I forgot it since Linux solved that problem like a decade ago

[–] Strider 3 points 3 months ago

Yeah, it would be such an easy fix for windows too but they "forgot" how to ui a decade ago.

[–] A_Very_Big_Fan 1 points 3 months ago

I haven't used Linux since 2015... What was the solution?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago (3 children)

It's hard to type systemctl reboot instead of systemctl poweroff.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago

I've typed reboot out of habit more than once

[–] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

shutdown -r now VS shutdown now

The -r muscle memory is real.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

I do shutdown -h now

Never realized I could omit the halt parameter.

[–] foobaz 1 points 3 months ago

Came here to write this exact comment 😁

[–] Xeroxchasechase 10 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

30 seconds on my 15 years old machine with linux

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Oh, way worst is "shutdown" instead of "sign out" in Production Windows server.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (2 children)

If your production server can be shut down via GUI button, the admin was lazy.

[–] ripcord 6 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Or without a confirmation, or without a confirmation that requires typing something first.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Windows server gives a confirmation box where you can add a reason why the server needs to shutdown, though it is not mandatory.

[–] ripcord 1 points 3 months ago

Pretty sure you have to type SOMETHING to continue.

[–] RestrictedAccount 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago

also you can hit the power button when it's posting. that'll just turn it off.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

For those who use windows with english language.

CTRL+X, U, U.

Invoke quick menu, select power entry, select shutdown.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Lol… back in the day, it was accidentally hitting the physical reset button with your shoe… and that wreaked havoc on your UNIX system…

[–] Guy_Fieris_Hair 4 points 3 months ago

Not too bad now days with SSDs and fast boot, but back in the day that may have been a 15+ minute mistake. Getting into windows took several minutes and you would still have several minutes of nearly unresponsivness as background processes booted, including your anti-virus. Usually you clicked the power button and waked away for a bit. And the trick to speeding up your pc was to dig into the startup folder and delete as many programs as possible so they wouldn't start at boot, because for some reason everything wanted to.

[–] notaviking 3 points 3 months ago

Back in the days of Windows XP and mechanical hard drives

[–] proti 3 points 3 months ago

me spamming ctrl+alt+del, hoping it'll stop it

[–] tpihkal 3 points 3 months ago

Restart, not really a problem...update and restart, oof.

[–] chonglibloodsport 1 points 3 months ago

I can’t remember when I last shut my computer down. I definitely did back in the 90s. But now it’s just sleep, sleep, sleep!

[–] patak 1 points 3 months ago

as someone who uses a pc, I just plug out the power if such thing happens

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

F11 on my computer let's me select which boot device to boot from, and I just turn off the computer there.